BMA ȷudicial review over cost of government’s pension mistakes is dismissed

The BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review into the government’s handling of NHS pension reforms, saying that doctors were being made to pay for the mistakes of ministers.In 2022 the BMA was granted permission for a judicial review appealing the government’s attempts to make members pay for the costs of the McCloud remedy—the mechanism put in place to fix mistakes the government made when reforming the NHS pension scheme in 2015.1 The McCloud judgment found that the government had discriminated against younger members when it implemented changes to public sector pension schemes in 2015, which offered transitional protection to senior members. As a result, all members were moved back to their legacy schemes until April 2022 and will have the choice of moving to either scheme for the remedy period at the point of retirement.In 2021 the Treasury published directions seeking to…
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